The Hindu : Centre mulling over ordinance

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Wednesday, Mar 17, 2004

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Centre mulling over ordinance

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. The Centre is considering promulgation of an Ordinance to ensure the telecast of the cricket matches between India and Pakistan in the event of the Dubai-based television channel, Ten Sports, deciding not to give live signals to Doordarshan for telecasting the matches.

Highly-placed sources told The Hindu that the Government was watching the situation since the matter was now pending in the Supreme Court.

On Monday, senior counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing for Ten Sports, told the court that he could not give an undertaking that the telecast would be guaranteed if the Government insisted on telecasting on Ten Sports and Doordarshan at the same time. The telecast rights were owned by Taj TV Ltd., Dubai, and his client, Taj Television India (Pvt.) Ltd., being a subsidiary, did not have the telecast rights, Mr. Sibal had said. However, Ten Sports today agreed for the telecast and the match was shown live on Doordarshan with the Ten Sports logo and advertisements. Sources said that if there was no agreement on the issue during the resumed hearing of the case tomorrow, the Government would be left with no alternative but to promulgate an ordinance.

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